“A bad person will never be a good professional,” said multi-intelligence father Howard Gardner in an interview with Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.
This interview brought some very interesting reflections and, with it, gave us the opportunity to mature an idea that reflects a devastating truth: only the right people can become excellent professionals. Wrong people, in turn, will never succeed, even if it is true that they can acquire a great deal of technical knowledge.
- This leads us to think of the possibility of classifying people as good and bad.
- In fact.
- This differentiation seems fictional.
- Since humans are not a dichotomy.
- But an amalgam of qualities.
These qualities, of course, can be understood as good or bad. When we put the combination on the scale, perhaps the dark part weighs more than the light part; it is precisely the meaning of prayer that the article directs. -Howard Gardner-
It takes a balance between commitment, ethics and excellence to become a good professional, let’s say that to be really good it is necessary to put the soul, emotions, feelings and dedication to the work itself. In this sense, this excerpt by Howard Gardner The interview is not a waste, because it reflects the immense wisdom with which it corresponds to his words:
-Interviewer: Why are there excellent professionals who are bad people?
-Howard: We found out that these people don’t exist. In fact, the wrong people can’t be great professionals. They never make it. They may have technical experience, but they are not excellent.
-E: Do I have exceptions in mind?
-H: What we have shown is that the best professionals are always ECE: excellent, committed and ethical.
-E: Can’t you be an excellent professional, but a bad animal as a person?
-H: No, because you cannot achieve excellence if you do not exceed the satisfaction of your ego, your ambition or your greed, if you do not commit, therefore, with goals that go beyond your needs to meet the needs of all. And that requires ethics.
-E: Making yourself rich often bothers you
-H: Without ethical principles you can get rich, yes, or technically good, but not excellent.
-E: It’s comforting to know.
-H: Not so much these days, because we also discover that young people accept the need for ethics, but not at the beginning of their careers, because they think that without elbows they will not succeed, they see ethics as a luxury of those who have already achieved it.
? He knows all theories. Master all techniques, but when you touch a human soul, be simply one more human soul?These are the words of the iconic psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, words that hide a certain reality.
It is important that before we become professionals we are people. This is what brings balance in the development of our professional qualities. We cannot disconnect from ourselves; in other words, we cannot separate our inner life from our professional life.
We talk about essence, those qualities that help us not to get lost among people, to know and ignore each other, to transform ourselves through lessons, to have a beautiful heart, to improve every day and to contemplate ourselves as a rainbow.
Because, moreover, if something needs to be taken into account is that people are sometimes white, sometimes black, sometimes a thousand colors, by balancing balance with the positive we can achieve excellence in our trades, as well as in the different areas of our lives.